Affordable units the town has, against what it would need
East Hampton has about 215 affordable housing units. It would need about 564, roughly 350 more, to be exempt from the state law known as 8-30g, which requires the town to consider certain affordable housing proposals that its zoning would otherwise block. The town manager put the figures on the record Aug. 11.
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Comments close at the end of October
The draft Plan of Conservation and Development, the town's guide for the next 10 years, is posted on the town website. The formal comment period began at the Sept. 22 council meeting and runs to the end of October. Written comments go to the steering committee at the Land Use office in Town Hall.
Planning and Zoning plans a public hearing on the final version near the end of the year.
Fewer people, more households: what the draft town plan found
East Hampton has lost 789 residents since 2000 but gained more than 1,000 households, a shift the presentation attributed to shrinking households, according to the draft Plan of Conservation and Development, the town's 10-year planning guide, presented to the council Sept. 8. More than half of households, 54%, are one or two people.
The same presentation said 81% of the town's taxable value is single-family homes and 7% is commercial and industrial, and a quarter of the town's land is not taxed at all.
Planning and Zoning votes 6 to 0
Planning and Zoning adopted rules required by the state's new middle housing law on July 1. The law covers buildings between a single house and a large complex. In the town's commercial and mixed-use zones, buildings of two to nine units are now allowed by site plan approval only, which means no public hearing.
In a parking district the commission drew, the most the town can require is one space for a studio or one-bedroom and two for anything larger.